OpenAI Can't Self-Police Because It Fires the People Raising the Alarm
By Alex Turner, Amber Scorah, and Karl Koch. Op-ed written for Fortune. Giving independent evaluators “employee-like access” is “a great idea”, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on September 12th. Two weeks later, OpenAI president Greg Brockman signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence which outlined the administration’s answer to growing fears about AI: the companies would police themselves. One of the accord’s four commitments, which President Trump called “morally binding,” was for companies to partner with an independent external auditor or evaluator. Two days later, OpenAI fired three